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Doc.  No.  42. 


EXECUTIVE  DEPARTMENT, 
Januahv  6,  1862. 
Gentlemen  of  the  Senate  and 

House  of  Delegates  : 

I  have  recoivotl  iVoni  liis  Exci'lloncy  .Josoph  E.  Brown,  t^ovcrnor 
of  till!  state  of  Gcoi<:jia,  a  coininuiiication  enclosing  joint  resolutions  aLlopted  by  the  legisla- 
ture of  that  state,  and  aj)proved  Deeenibc^r  lltb,  18G].  These  resolutions  relate  to  matters 
of  the  first  importance,  and  they  connnand  m^'  cordial  approbation.  They  declare  the  sen- 
timent of  the  Southern  Confi'deracy,  and  will  be  enthusiastically  responded  to  by  the  people 
of  all  classes. 

In  eonnnuuieating  these  resolutions  to  the  general  assembl}-,  I  embrace  the  opportunity 
to  fill  up  a  hiatus  in  iho  history  of  our  state,  growing  out  of  her  changed  relations.  Virgi- 
nia dissolved  her  connection  witli  the  government  of  the  United  States  on  the  17th  day  of 
April  last — having  watched  closely  the  political  conduct  of  President  Lincoln  and  his  cabi- 
net, from  the  4th  day  of  March  preceding.  A  large  portion  of  our  peoph>  bi'lieved,  from  the 
revelations  of  his  inaugural  message,  that  he  designed  to  subjugate  the  south,  and  nuich  of 
his  policy,  as  devel<i])rd  in  the  lirst  six  weeks  of  his  administration,  tended  to  confirm  and 
strengthen  this  belief'.  Tin-  appearance  of  his  proclamation,  however,  calling  upon  Virgi- 
nia and  otlier  states  for  volunteers,  removed  all  doubts,  and  made  it  plain  and  palpable  that 
subjugation  waKS  his  object,  and  military  power  would  be  the  means  used  to  effect  it.  He 
had  n'vealcd  his  purpose,  by  the  issue  of  this  proclamation,  to  use  Virginians,  if  possible, 
in  coercing  their  southern  slavcliolding  Ijrethreu  into  sul)mission  to  bis  will  and  obedience 
to  his  governmental  authority.  Virginia,  seeing  tb.at  the  only  hope  of  preserving  her  rights 
.snd  honor  as  a  state,  and  the  liberties  of  her  people,  consisted  in  dissolving  her  connection 
with  the  government  of  the  United  States,  and  resuming  her  sovereignty,  adopted  that 
course,  and  subsequently  determined  to  unite  her  destiny  with  her  southern  sisters.  She 
did  so,  and  her  couA'cntion,  being  at  the  time  in  session,  adopted  such  ordinauces  and  regu- 
lations as  were  necessary  to  protect  her  citizens  against  the  machinations  of  enemies  at 
home  and  the  encroachments  of  enemies  from  abroad. 

Events  that  have  transpired  since  the  17th  day  of  April  last  have  more  than  continued 
the  worst  apprehensions  of  the  people  of  Virginia,  and  have  furnished  an  anipU'  and  com- 
plete justification  for  th(>  secession  of  the  state.  All  th(!  wicked  results,  ai)pn'liended  when 
she  seceded,  have  been  fearfully  realized,  and  they  now  constitute  an  iinjiortant  chapter  in 
the  history  of  the  stirring  times  in  which  we  live. 

Sucli  were  the  considerations  that  iiiflu(Miced  anil  determined  the  action  of  Virginia. 

I  now  projiosc;  to  show  that  while  President  Lincoln  professes  to  have  inaugurated  this 
war  for  the  preservation  and  perpetuation  of  the  constitution  of  the  United  States,  in  its 
spirit  and  letter,  he  has  violated,  in  the  most  direct  manner,  many  of  its  most  important 
provisions.  I  propose,  in  the  next  place,  to  compare  his  conduct  with  the  conduct  of 
deorge  the  Third,  and  provt-,  by  reference  to  the  declaration  of  independence,  that  most  of 
his  acts  have  been  identical  with  those  denounced  by  our  forefathens  as  justifiable  ground 
for  our  separation  tVom  the  inothi-r  government. 

The  war  which  has  been  waged  against  us  by  President  Lincoln  is  the  most  unnatural, 
and.  at  the  same  time,  the  most  disgnucful  that  has  ever  occurred.     We  are  struggling  for 


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our  rights  and  libertips,  for  the  protection  of  persons  and  propertj',  aud  for  the  preservation 
of  the  honor  and  institutions  of  the  south.  The  ruthless  assault  that  has  been  made  upon 
us,  and  the  unjustifiable  attempt  to  reduce  us  to  submission,  presents  a  most  extraordinary 
spectacle  in  the  eyes  of  the  civilized  world. 

AVhen  a  secretary  of  war  can  quietly  seat  himself  at  his  desk,  aud  coolly,  calmly  aud 
deliberately  commit  to  paper  a  roconnnendaiion  to  arm  the  slaves  of  the  southern  states, 
place  them  in  the  field,  and  incite  them  to  hostility  agaiust  their  masters  and  the  destruction 
of  their  families,  Avliat  extreme  may  Ave  not  rcasonablj'  anticipate  from  an  administration 
that  retains  such  an  official  iu  its  service?  When  an  administration  can  go  to  work  to  de- 
stroy ports  in  states  over  which  they  claim  to  have  jurisdiction,  by  sinking  obstructions  in 
the  channels  of  our  rivers  and  harbors  (a  policy  unheard  of  amongst  civilized  nations), 
what  enormity  may  we  not  be  prepared  to  expect  ? 

President  Lincoln  and  his  cabinet  have  annulled  the  constitution ;  have  suspended  the 
writ  of  habeas  corpus,  and  have  declared  martial  law  without  constitutional  warrant,  but 
in  defiance  of  it.  Representative  government  has  ceased  to  command  their  respect,  and  the 
direct  tendency  now,  in  what  remains  of  the  late  United  States  government,  is  inevitably 
towards  consolidation  and  despotism.  Passion  and  prejudice,  avarice  and  selfishness,  ma- 
lignity and  meanness  Have  controlled  their  action  and  directed  their  eftbrts  against  us. 

Having  presented  these  general  views,  I  now  present  specifications,  showing  in  what 
particulars  the  constitution  has  been  violat<^d.  Some  of  these  specifications  show  violations 
anterior  to  the  secession  of  Virginia — others  show  violations  equally  palpable  subsequent  to 
her  secession. 

In  the  preamble  to  the  constitution  of  the  United  States  our  forefathers  declared  the  pur- 
poses and  olijects  they  had  in  view  in  the  formation  of  the  government,  and  those  pui"})oses 
and  objects  wc^re,  "to  establish  justice,  insiu-e  domestic  tranquillity,  provide  for  the  com- 
mon defence,  promote  the  general  welfare,  and  secure  the  blessings  of  liberty"  to  themselves 
and  their  posterity.  The  government  has  been  so  administered  and  directed  as  to  defeat 
all  these  pui-poses  aud  objects.  Justice  has  not  been  established,  nor  is  it  respected  by 
President  Lincoln  and  his  cabinet.  Domestic  tranquillity  has  not  been  insured,  but  do- 
mestic disturbance  has  been  inaugurated  and  encouraged.  The  common  defence  has  not 
been  provided  for,  but  northern  arms  have  been  leveled  at  southern  breasts,  and  the  welfare 
of  our  people  has  been  totally  disregarded.  The  blessings  of  liljerty  have  not  been  secured 
to  us,  but  we  have  found  the  federal  authorities  exerting  all  their  power  and  using  all  the 
.means  at  their  command  to  reduce  the  southern  people  to  abject  submission  to  northern 
numbers. 

President  Lincoln  aud  his  cabinet  have  willfully  aud  deliberately  proposed  to  violate 
every  provision  of  the  third  section  of  the  fourth  article  of  the  constitution,  which  each 
one  of  them  solemnly  swore  or  affirmed,  in  the  presence  of  Almighty  God,  to  "preserve, 
protect  and  defend.'''     Tliat  section  is  in  these  words : 

"  New  states  may  bi?  admitted  by  the  congress  into  this  Union ;  but  no  new  state  shall  be 
formed  or  erected  within  the  jurisdiction  of  any  other  state ;  nor  any  state  formed  by  the 
junction  of  two  or  more  states,  or  parts  of  states,  without  the  consent  of  the  legislatures  of 
the  states  concerned,  as  well  as  of  the  congress." 

They  have  deliberately  proposed  to  annex  certain^couiide^s,  in.  .Maryland  to  Virginia,  and 
thus  form  the  new  state  of  Kanawha,  within  the  jurisdiction  of  Virginia,  without  the  con- 
sent of  the  legislatures  of  those  states  and  of  congrc^ss.  They  have  proposed  to  take  the 
four  counties  lying  in  the  Pan  Handle  from  Virginia,  and  attacli  them  to  Pennsylvania, 


Doc.  No.  42.  5 

witlioiit  the  consent  of  the  legislatures  of  the  states  interested  and  of  congress.  They  have 
proposed  to  join  the  eastern  counties  of  Virginia  to  Maryland,  and  thus  make  a  new  state 
by  the  junction  of  parts  of  two  states,  without  the  consent  of  the  legislatiu'es  of  those 
states  and  of  congress.  These  propositions  present  a  most  plain  and  glaring  violation  of 
the  constitution,  and  evidence  an  intensity  of  malignity  toward.^  Virginia  and  Virginians, 
without  a  parallel  in  the  history  of  the  TJnited  States. 

The  first  amendment  to  the  constitution  declares,  "  that  congress  shall  maki;  no  law  abridg- 
ing the  freedom  of  speech  or  of  the  pu'ss."  President  Lincoln  and  his  cabinet  have  will- 
fully disregarded  tlie  spirit  of  this  article.  Numerous  instances  could  be  cited  to  prove  that 
flic  solemnities  of  an  oath  have  not  restrained  them  in  their  efforts  to  abridge  the  freedom 
of  speech,  and  to  muzzle  the  pitjss.  The  numberless  anests  made  by  them  in  western  and 
eastern  Virginia,  in  Kentucky,  in  Missoiu-i,  in  Maryland,  in  Washington  city,  and  also  in 
the  free  states,  when  notliing  more  wiis  charged  against  the  parties  arrested  than  the  decla- 
ration of  their  opinions  in  condenmation  of  the  policy  of  President  Lincoln  and  his  cabinet, 
shows  that  freedom  of  speech  is  not  tolerated  by  them.  The  notorious  fact  tliat  papers  have 
been  suppressed  in  New  York,  Philadelphia  and  elsewhere,  by  the  exerci.se  of  executive 
power,  fully  attests  a  scandalous  usurpation  for  the  destruction  of  the  independence  of  the 
press. 

President  Lincoln  and  his  cabinet,  and  the  militai-y  officers  under  their  direction  and  con- 
trol, have  violated  the  fourth  article  of  the  amendments  to  the  constitution,  which  guaran- 
tees "  the  right  of  the  people  to  be  secure  in  their  persons,  houses,  papers  and  effects,  against 
unreasonable  searches  and  seizures,"  and  declares  that  it  "  shall  not  be  violated."  This 
article  has  been  habitually  disregarded,  and  every  observ-ant  man  will  call  to  mind  nume- 
rous instances  of  its  violation,  the  results  of  suspicion  merely. 

1I(!  and  his  cabinet  have  violated,  as  deliberately  and  willfully,  the  iil"tli  article  of  the 
amendments  to  the  constitution,  which  is  in  these  words : 

"No  person  shall  lie  held  to  answer  for  a  capital  or  otherwise  infamous  crime,  unless  on 
a  presentment  or  indictment  of  a  grand  juiy,  except  in  cases  arising  in  the  land  or  naval 
forces,  or  in  th(>  jnilitia  when  in  actual  service  in  time  of  war  or  public  danger  ;  nor  shall 
any  person  be  subject  for  the  same  offence  to  be  twice  put  in  jeopardy  of  life  or  limb;. nor 
shall  be  compelled  in  any  criminal  case  to  be  a  witness  against  himself,  nor  bi>  deprived  of 
life,  liberty  or  property,  without  due  process  of  law ;  nor  shall  private  property  be  taken 
for  public  use  without  just  compensation." 

Without  a  presentment  or  indictment  of  a  grand  jury,  they  have,  on  mere  suspicion  of 
crime,  caused  men  and  women  to  be  arrested  and  confined  under  strong  guards,  and  have 
detained  them  for  weeks  and  months.  They  have  prostituted  the  telegraph  to  their  use,  for 
the  purpose  of  communicating  orders  for  the  arrest  of  suspected  persons — repudiating  all 
those  .safeguards  which  the  law  has  wisely  thrown  around  the  citizen  for  his  protection. 
Desolation  has  followed  in  the  footsteps  of  the  federal  army.  Neither  life,  liberty  nor  pro- 
perty has  been  respected  by  them.  .They  have  murdered  many  of  the  best  citizens  of  the 
country — they  have  incarcerated  others  in  jails  and  forts — and  they  have  seized  and  appro- 
priated private  property  to  public  use  without  due  process  of  law,  and  without  making  just 
compensation  to  the  owner. 

He  and  his  cabinet  have  disregarded  the  injunctions  of  the  sixtli  article  of  the  amend- 
ments to  the  constitution  not  less  flagrantly  than  those  to  which  I  have  referred.  That 
article  declares : 

"  In  all  criminal  prosecutions  the  accused  shall  enjoy  the  right  to  a  speedy  and  public 
trial,  by  an  impartial  jury  of  the  state  and  district  wherein  the  crime  shall  have  been  com- 
1* 


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mitted,  which  district  shall  have  been  previously  ascertained  by  law,  and  to  be  informed  ol 
the  nature  and  cause  of  the  accusation;  to  be  confronted  with  the  witnesses  against  him; 
to  have  compulsory  process  for  obtaining  witnesses  in  his  favor,  and  to  hav^  the  assistance 
of  counsel  for  his  defence." 

ITe  and  his  cabinet  have  seized  large  numbers  of  our  citizens — withdrawn  them  from 
their  homes,  their  families  and  tLeir  business — cast  them  into  loathsome  prisons — refused  to 
inform  them  of  the  cause  and  nature  of  the  accusation  against  them — denied  to  them  the 
right  and  op])ortunity  of  consultation  with  friends  or  counsel — and  have  withheld  from 
them  a  speedy  and  public  trial  by  an  impartial  jury.  They  would  neither  confront  them 
with  the  witnesses  against  them,  nor  would  they  allo\v  them  to  have  compulsory  process  for 
obtaining  witnesses  in  their  favor. 

The  conduct  of  President  Lincoln  has  been  as  tyrannical  and  oppressive  towards  the 
Confederate  States  as  the  acts  of  the  king  of  Great  Britain,  which  caused  om-  first  revolu- 
tion, were  towards  the  colonies.  The  comparison  cannot  fail  to  make  its  impression  upon 
the  mind  even  of  the  casual  observe)-. 

President  Lincoln  lias  plundered  the  public  treasury,  and  has  delivered  at  least  forty 
thousand  dollars  to  Pierpont,  to  enable  him  and  his  traitoi-ous  associates  in  the  common- 
wealth of  Virginia  to  ovcrtln"o^y  the  state  government,  and  to  organize  within  the  limits  of 
this  state  a  new  government.  He  has  thus  been  guilty  of  the  unprincipled  conduct  of 
using  the  people's  money  to  lavish  upon  traitors  and  encourage  them  to  perseverance  in 
their  work  of  treason. 

"  The  history"  of  Abraham  Lincoln  "  is  a  history  of  repeated  injuries  and  usurpations, 
all  having  in  direct  object  the  establishment  of  an  absolute  tyranny  over  these"  Confederate 
"  States."  To  this  end,  "  he  has  affected  to  render  the  military  independent  of  and  superior 
to  the  civil  power." 

He  has  combined  with  Pierpont  and  other  traitors  in  Virginia,  "  to  subject  us  to  a 
jurisdiction  foreign  to  any  constitution,  and  unacknowledged  by  our  laws;  giving  his 
assent  to  their  acts  of  pretended  legislation." 

He  is  endeavoring  to  quarter  "  large  bodies  of  armed  troops  amongst  us." 

•He  is  endeavoring  to  cut  oif  "our  trade  with  all  parts  of  the  world." 

He  is  endeavoring  to  impose  "  taxes  upon  us  without  our  consent." 

He  is  endeavoring  to  deprive  us  "  in  many  cases  of  the  benefits  of  trial  by  jury." 

"  He  has  abdicated  government  here,  by  declaring  us  out  of  his  protection,  and  waging 
war  against  us." 

"  He  has  plundered  our  seas,  ravaged  our  coasts,  burnt  our  towns,  and  destroyed  the 
lives  of  our  people." 

"  He  is  at  this  time  transporting  large  troops  of  mercenaries  to  complete  the  works  of 
death,  desolation  and  tyranny  already  begun  with  circumstances  of  cruelty  and  perfidy 
scarcely  paralleled  in  the  most  barbarous  ages,  and  totally  unworthy  the  head  of  a  civilized 
nation." 

He  has  endeavored  to  excite  domestic  insurrections  amongst  us,  by  proposing  to  put 
arms  in  the  hands  of-  our  slaves,  and  thereby  encourage  them  to  "an  undistinguished 
destruction  of  all  ages,  sexes  and  conditions." 


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He  has  violated  laws  human  and  divine,  to  gratify  his  passions,  to  glut  his  prejudices, 
and  to  wreak  his  vengeance  upon  a  people  who  ask  only  their  rights,  and  who  are  strug- 
gling to  preserve  their  lihcrties.  Can  a  government  conducted  upon  such  principles 
endure  ? 

In  every  stage  of  these  oppressions,  attempted  or  consummated,  prior  to  the  secession 
of  the  state,  we  warned  President  Lincoln  and  the  northern  people  of  the  inevitahlc  con- 
sequences of  their  course,  and  admonished  them  that  if  justice  were  not  accorded  to  us,  the 
Union  must  be  dissolved.  In  every  stage  of  these  oppressions  since  the  secession  of  the 
state,  we  have  resisted  them  as  became  a  free  people  asserting  independence.  Our  admo- 
nitions and  resistance  have  been  answered  by  repeated  injury  and  oppression,  aggravated 
by  war  and  bloodshed,  and  by  the  assumption  and  exercise  of  power  which  even  an 
autocrat  would  hesitate;  to  assume  and  exercise. 

A  president,  "  whose  character  is  thus  marked  by  every  act  which. may  define  a  tyrant, 
is  unfit  to  be  the  ruler  of  a  free  people." 

I  have  thus  presented — 

First.  The  considerations  that  influenced  and  controlled  the  ftction  of  Virginia,  in  sepa- 
rating herself  from  the  government  of  the  United  States,  and  resuming  her  sovereignty. 

Second.  The  results  which  President  Lincoln's  policy  gave  us  fearful  reason  to  appre- 
hend, and  which  are  now  matters  of  history,  stamped  iudehbly  upon  its  pages.  In  these  I 
enumerate  his  repeated  violations  of  a  constitution  which  he  had  solemnly  sworn  to  support. 

Third.  I  have  run  a  parallel  between  the  conduct  of  President  Lincoln  and  George  the 
Third,  and  have  demonstrated  that  the  former  has  shown  himself  not  less  a  tyrant  and 
usurper  than  the  latter. 

The  constitution  of  the  United  States  has  had  no  binding  efiicacy  upon  us  since  the  17th 
day  of  April  last.  On  that  day  we  repudiated  it,  and  declared  to  the  world  that  we  would 
not  be  longer  bound  by  its  provisions.  From  that  day  Virginia  dates  a  new  era.  Her  own 
constitution,  her  laws  and  her  ordinances  constituted  the  rule  for  her  guidance  from  that  day 
forward,  until  her  uuion  with  the  Confederate  States  was  consummated.  While  she  occu- 
pied a  position  as  an  independent  state^  she  deported  herself  with  a  grace  and  dignity  that 
became  "  the  mother  of  states ;"  and  after  her  union  with  the  confederate  government,  she 
fulfilled  her  obligations  faithfully  in  her  new  relation. 

The  occurrences  of  the  past  nine  mouths  have  demonstrated  conclusively  that  we  cannot 
live  together  as  equals  under  the  goveranicnt  of  the  United  States ;  and  the  habitual  viola- 
tion of  the  provisions  of  the  constitution,  and  the  open  disregard  of  the  laws,  by  President 
Lincoln  and  his  officials,  render  governmental  association  bctwei-n  us  impossible.  Jlutual 
respect  betwecn|^he  citizens  of  the  Southern  Confederacy  and  those  of  the  north  has  ceased 
to  exist.  Mutual  confidence  has  been  succeeded  by  mutual  distrust,  and  mutual  good  will 
by  mutual  aversion.  No  government  can  bo  enduring  which  does  not  possess  the  affection 
and  respect  of  the  governed.  It  cannot  be  that  the  people  of  the  Confederate  States  can 
again  entertain  a  feeling  of  affection  and  respect  for  the  government  of  the  United  States. 
We  have  therefore  separated  from  them ;  and  now  let  it  be  understood  that  the  separation 
"  is  and  ought  to  be  final  and  irrevocable" — that  Virginia  "  will  under  no  circumstances 
entertain  any  proposition  from  any  quarter,  which  may  have  for  its  object  a  restoration  or 
reconstruction  of  the  late  Union,  on  any  terms  and  conditions  whatever." 

We  nuist  be  content  with  nothing  less  than  the  unqualified  recognition  of  the  indepen- 
dence of  the  Southern  Confederacy,  and  its  nationality,  by  the  government  of  the  late  United 


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States ;  and  to  this  end  we  must  meet  the  issuo  they  have  tendered  to  us,  with  spirit,  energy 
and  determination,  and  with  a  firm  resolve  on  the  part  oi"  each  of  the  Confederate  States, 
that  every  thing  shall  he  doni^  that  may  he  necessary  to  insure  the  triumph  of  our  arms, 
and  thus  secure  liberty  and  independence  for  the  south. 

In  conclusion,  I  recommend  that  before  your  adjournment  this  day,  you  reaffirm,  by 
solemn  vote  in  each  house,  the  resolutions  adopted  by  the  geiu;ral  assembly  of  Georgia. 
The  empire  state  of  the  south  lias  spoken.  Let  .not  the  mother  of  states  remain  silent  on  a 
subject  of  so  much  significance  and  importance  to  the  Southern  Confederacy. 

Respectfully, 

JOHN  LETCHER. 


Doc.  No.  42. 


Executive  Department,  MUledgcvilk,  Ga., 
December  IG,  1861. 
Sir, 

I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  herewith  a  copy  of  joint  resohitions  recently  adopted 
by  tlic  general  assembly  of  Gcorg-ia.  The  legislature  has  not  directed  me  to  forward  them, 
but  I  do  so  under  the  conviction  that  you  will  be  pleased  to  learn  the  action  of  G<'orgia  on 
the  important  subject  to  which  they  relate. 

Very  respectfully, 

JOSEPH  E.  BROWN. 
His  Excellency  John  Letcfier, 

Governor  uf  Virginia. 


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JOINT   RESOLUTIONS 

Of  the  general  ajtseynhly  of  (he  utate  of  Georgia,  panned  af  its  late  session. 


Resolved  by  fh<>  senate  and  house  of  representatives  ot"  the  stiite  of  Georgia,  in  general 
n.ssenibly  met,  that  it  is  the  sense  of  this  general  assembly  that  the  separation  of  tliosc  states 
now  forming  the  Confederate  States  of  America  from  the  ITnited  States,  is  and  ought  to  be 
final  and  inevocable,  and  that  Georgia  will,  under  no  circumstances,  entertain  any  proponi- 
tion  from  any  quarter,  whicli  may  have  for  its  object  a  restoration  or  reconstrvictiou  of  the 
late  Union,  on  any  terms  or  conditions  whatever. 

Kesolved,  that  the  war  which  the  United  States  are  waging  upon  the  Confederate  States, 
should  be  met  on  our  part  witli  the  utmost  vigor  and  energy,  until  our  independence  and 
nationality  afr  unconditionally  :ickiiowleJged  by  the  United  States. 

Resolved,  that  Georgia  pledges  herself  to  her  sister  states  of  the  Confederacy,  that  she  will 
stand  by  them  throughout  the  struggle — she  will  contribute  all  the  means  which  her  resources 
will  supply,  so  far  as  the  same  may  be  necessary  to  the  support  of  the  connnon  cause,  and 
will  not  consent  to  lay  down  arms  until  peace  is  established  on  the  basis  of  the  foregoing 
i^esolutions. 

WAKKEN  AKIN. 
Spetil.-rr  of  the  Hotise  of  Reprcsentaiives- 
L.  Carrington, 

Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives. 

JOHN  BILLUPS, 

President  of  the  Senate. 
J.\S.   M.   MOBLEY, 

Secretary  of  the  Senate. 


Approved  December  11th,  1861. 


JOSEPH  E.  BROWN, 

Govem«r. 


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